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OTTAWA -- It's called an IVD, and by the end of the decade it may be to male birth control what the iPod is to music geeks.

The Intra Vas Device has the potential to bring about a societal shift by transferring the responsibility for birth control from women to men.

The IVD -- the world's first implantable male contraceptive -- is being billed as a reversible alternative to permanent vasectomy and is anticipated to provide contraceptive effectiveness comparable to the IUD and the birth control pill.

The IVD works something like a vasectomy, only better, explains Dr. Neil Pollock, Vancouver's top vasectomy surgeon and a partner in Shepherd Medical, the U.S. company that owns the patents for the IVD.

"The big bonus that we are anticipating this device will have is the reversibility. Whereas with vasectomy, it's a complex three to four-hour microsurgery, expensive, and with limited success rates."

The IVD -- a 2.5-centimetre hollow silicone plug -- is implanted into the vas deferens tubes to block the flow of sperm from the testicles to the penis.

Implanting the IVD involves accessing the vas deferens tubes, much like a vasectomy. But rather than cutting and cauterizing the tubes, which permanently damages them, only a small opening is made in each tube. The tubes are then capped with silicone plugs. The seven-minute procedure is carried out under local anesthetic in a doctor's office.

The IVD can later be removed in a procedure similar to its insertion, thereby re-establishing sperm flow.

Although men are a tough sell when it comes to contraceptives, the device could revolutionize the multibillion dollar birth-control industry.

Shepherd Medical has been given a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health for clinical trials on humans. The clinical study is expected to begin this year, pending Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption approval.

This is not a whole lot different than a vasectomy. I am not going to have a vasectomy, but do you have the same response to those?

Male birth control is going to be a big deal. I'll take it, I don't want kids, so it is fine for me and my wife. Single men that don't want them either can go for male birth control. It's just another option.

Although most of the research that I have seen has gone into oral contraceptives for men. Sign me up man.

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At least none of ya'll actually have to worry about HAVING the kids! I can't see not running fire calls for 9 hours, much less 9 months. That would be like, I don't know, just not a good situation. Haha think a preganat woman is bad...I'm sure one who is a firefighter would be much worse. I know how I get now when I have to miss a call...

Hey Bou, I admire your decision to have the snip. I have been considering the matter myself for a little while now.

On the day you go for the op, don't do what someone I know of did and ride his bicycle to the hospital...

It was a nice day, and instead of driving to the op, he decided that he would get the bike out of the garage and tootle down there on that. It was only half and hours ride after all. The op went well and everything was sown up and what have you and my friend got back on his bike and pedalled home...the local anasthetic wore off about 5 minutes from his house and his wife found him 2 hours later propped up against the garage door, too much in pain to be able to the get off the bike himself...

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Originally posted by CALFFBOU

Good idea. Except I have to drive there sober and return
home the same. I will have to do this proceedure on a
4 day.

-Bou

Bou, I think you misunderstood. He's saying make sure the beer is on ice (at home in your refridgerator) before you leave for the appointment. Than, after you get back home, sit on 1 12-pack to numb your junk and drink the other one.......

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Re: Re: Thanks..

Originally posted by firenresq77 Bou, I think you misunderstood. He's saying make sure the beer is on ice (at home in your refridgerator) before you leave for the appointment. Than, after you get back home, sit on 1 12-pack to numb your junk and drink the other one.......

Thnaks bro- I got that part. I was planning on using the
cold cans as dual purpose.

Re: THIS COULD GET REAL STICKY REAL FAST

Originally posted by MalahatTwo7
and is anticipated to provide contraceptive effectiveness comparable to the IUD and the birth control pill.

Well I got one for ya. I know a guy who has a son and two daughters. None of the pregnancies were planned. The son was conceived while his wife used an IUD. The first daughter conceived while she used a diaphragm and the other daughter while on the pill. This new thing better be able to stop that super-sperm.